So where do we stand now? Well, first we should address that which is unavoidable: the general negative sentiments so many have toward Seagate on a whole, and then why Andy would recommend one of their drives. One of which was simply, what drives he recommended for photographers? The recommendations then? As follows:īut that was then and this is now, and since then the company has added 10,577 drives (about an 18% jump), significantly more 8TB drives, and now include some enterprise class also. Last year I spoke with Andy Klein of Backblaze to help make sense of the stats they were putting out, and to ask some blunt questions. The last time we checked Backblaze’s data was just after their Q1 2016 report, and we have seen a number of changes since then, both in how they operate and in what their findings show us of the market. BackBlaze currently runs using primarily using consumer drives, but in such vast quantities (82,516) it puts them in a unique position to test drives that you and I could buy, and report their findings, which is something they’re in the habit of doing. So, since we are all faced with the task of figuring out a back-up solution, we all arrive and are faced with the same questions: How much storage so I need, what’s the best hard drive brand/form/size/line and so on. For the creative, all of that data represents our life’s work, and life’s pleasures all of it digitally stored, and thus we must do what we can so it doesn’t vanish into some silicon wasteland, leaving us cold and alone, and possibly broke. As we’ve said before, the arms race of photographic tech makes for a rapidly growing number of megapixels, number of photos, and essentially means an exponential growth of data we all need stored, sort of along the lines of Moore’s Law.
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